Green Rice and Spam

Today has been so refreshing!!!! It has been a rough month in my class. With all the shee-shee, poop in the pants, growling, and tattle telling I was pretty sure that I wasn't going to make it to Spring Break alive (or that my kids would make it out alive). But with 3 days to go, we're flying high!!!!

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day with green Musubi. For those of you who don't know what Musubi is, it's a Hawaiian Staple. Rice with fried Spam wrapped in sea weed. Jaime won't admit it to anyone other than me but she LOVES it!!!! We make it every other Sunday for lunch. And she can never get enough. I have to admit, I used to love it too. But I think I might have lost my appetite for it last night after frying 23 pieces of Spam in our tiny kitchen at 10:30 at night. In fact, the thought of it makes my stomach queasy.

But the kids loved it!!! At first, a few of them said, "Yuck! That looks sick!" So I didn't give any to those kids. But once kids started saying, "Yummm, Musubi!!!" The other kids were all over it. Only 2 boys didn't have any. And one is really slow, I don't think he understood that I dyed the rice green. I think he thought it was really old. He hid his in his napkin and put it behind him.

The kids loved it (they all had a whole one and some had one and a half). But just watching them eat it made me sick. Musubi is supposed to be eaten while it's still hot and I had made most of them last night and put them in the fridge in plastic bags. The bags made the sea weed get mushy. It just didn't look or smell good. But they loved it.

I learned a very important lesson today... You can always count on Green Musubi to save the day (or month).